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| rhythmic breaks in the middle of lines, where the reciter could pause for breath |
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| two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things |
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| Repetition of Vowel SOunds in unrhymed, stressed syllables |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds in accented syllables |
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| lyric poem mourning loss of someone/something |
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| long (extended) narrative poem, sometimes developed orally, that celebrates the deeds of a legendary or heroic figure |
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| larger than life character whose accomplishments reflect a people's values and way of life and are celebrated in traditional tales |
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| writings that offers insight into society, it's values, and its customs |
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| Presents Direct Statements about a character |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| Use Actions Thoughts, and dialogue to reveal a character's personality |
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| Literary Work With Two or More levels of meaning-a literal level and one or more symbolic levels |
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| Reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
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| Body of songs, stories, and poems preserved by being passed from generation to generation by word of mouth |
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| Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter |
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| Humorous Break from a tense mood |
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| Not divided into poetic lines; lacks a definite rhythm |
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| a side comment that the character says on stage but those around don't necessarily hear it |
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| endowing inanimate objects with human traits |
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| Characters may say something but actualy mean the opposite |
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| The audience knows something the character doesn't |
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| What is expected in a situation may differ from what actually happens |
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| Smell Sight Touch Taste Hear |
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| elaborate metaphor compares very different ideas images or objects |
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| a play on words; contradicts itself but ends up being true |
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| poetry characterized by intellectual displays and concerned with metaphysical and philosophical issues |
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| short poem in which the writer strives for brevity, clarity, and permanence-short lines w/bouncy rhythms, paradoxal twists, parallel phrases or clauses |
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| code-progress, justice, loyalty, defense, courage, faith, humanity, largesse, nobility, franchise |
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| 14 Line-1st 8 called octave, present problem/situation, last six called sestet which responds to octave |
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| humans writing to point out falsehood |
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| groups of sonnets linked by theme, subject, or person addressed that can be divided into octaves and sestets OR quatrains and couplets |
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| "prince of Poetry" english writer, sonnets 1, (inspire his poetry) 35 (become sole subject of his gaze) and 75 (immortalize her) |
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| 14 line poems, usucaly iambic pentameter, syndey spencer, shakespear |
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| Turned away from religious subjects and began writing more complex and sophisticated plays, reintroduced tragedies and dramas Chirstopher Marlowe first major Elizabethan dramatist 1580s |
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| repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar vowel sounds |
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| the form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group, differ in grammar vocab and pronounciation |
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| "sieze the day" or "make most of passing time" |
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| pair of rhyming lines written in same manner |
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| poem expressing the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
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| Literary movement of 18th and 19th centuries, emphasized imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion, wildness, beauty of untamed nature world, common man nobility. |
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| sign, word, phrase, image, or other object that stands for or represents something else |
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| a long speech in a play or in a prose work made by a character who is alone and thus reveals private thoughts and feelings to the audience or reader |
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| The writers attitude toward the readers ad toward the subject |
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| A past body of work, developed over the coarse of history |
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| A type of drama or literature that shows the downfall or destruction of a noble or outstanding person, traditionally one who possesses a character weakness called tragic flaw |
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| A humorous imitation of another work or type of work |
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